Nurse, There's a Spider in My Throat

Dixielee, BSN, RN · Apr 30, 2005

That is the reason I stay in ER nursing. Just when I think I am getting bored, just when I think I have seen and heard it all, something so bizarre, so spectacular happens, it just makes you drop your jaw and say....WOOOOOOWWW.

I have determined that there is no limit to human stupidity and imagination in terms of coming up with ways of causing harm to themselves. This woman does not fall into these categories, but it makes a great story, none the less.

Thank you human kind for making sure I am never bored....or unemployed.:chuckle

I should also never have neck problems, because I get lots of exercise just shaking my head back and forth in disbelief at what I see and hear. :rolleyes:

V. Nightingale · Apr 30, 2005

how...or rather...why did this person drink the coke knowing there was a spider in it? it's one thing to come into the ed stating one swallowed some foreign object that got into the coke can...but to specifically state it was a spider?

well, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. . .

allnurses Guide · Apr 30, 2005

Well, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. . .

The same rhyme has been going through my head . . . :chuckle

steph

AngelSpirit · Apr 30, 2005

Well, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. . .

I would think that would be contraindicated but that is just me.

:chuckle

Happy-ER-RN, RN · Apr 30, 2005

"There was a nasty looking black spider attached under the fold of the vallucula at the epiglottis!"
Anybody care to offer up a nursing diagnosis for this?

Perceived esophageal arachnid e/b feeling of heebie jeebies r/t ingestion of 8 legged arthropod.

Ewwwwww. :eek:

Guest70758 · Apr 30, 2005

I heard on a radio program that every person swallows up to 20 spiders a year in his/her sleep. They apparently crawl in and we chew them up and swallow them. I almost fainted when I heard this!!! :uhoh21:

And I thought I had problems with insomnia before reading this post... :uhoh21:

ERNURSE4MS · Apr 30, 2005

AAAAAEEEEEEEIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!! Okay I am over my screaming fit. Another arachnaphobe here. I just don't understand how anyone could conciously swallow a spider, even if it is in a coke. OKAY I amy still getting the heebie jeebies. I think I will have to stop drinking can colas for good now. nightmares forever!!! :stone

sbic56, BSN, RN · Apr 30, 2005

OMG... that's the nastiest thing imaginable to me! Argh. I'll bet by time she realized she had it in her mouth and tried to get it out, it instictively ran in the opposite direction... you know how quick those little buggers are!

germain · May 1, 2005

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider

That wiggled and jiggled and wiggled insider her.

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,

But I don't know why- she swallowed the fly...

allnurses Guide · May 1, 2005

I don't know why she swallowed the fly

I guess she'll die . . . .

:) steph

Guest70758 · May 1, 2005

I don't know why she swallowed the fly
I guess she'll die . . . .
:) steph

That stupid song used to traumatize me as a little girl. And the pictures in the pop-up book were terrifying! I used to freak out anytime there was a fly by my food, because I thought I would die if I swallowed it. I wonder why we teach that song to kids? Another strange one I used to love:

Nobody likes me everybody hates me

Guess I'll go eat worms

Long thin slimy ones short fat juicy ones

Itsy bitsy fuzzy wuzzy worms!

AngelSpirit · May 1, 2005

It looks like this thread had more of a psychosocial focus than a pathophysiological one. Interesting. It seems that even the "little things" in life can be a source of such anxiety and fear.

-AS